Century-old Hunters Hill sandstone estate hits the market

If you’ve got a spare 9 million lying around, you could grab this house in Hunters Hill, which has just gone on the market. Well, $9 million is just the price guide, so you might want to add another million. Then another $620,000 stamp duty.

So, if you’ve got a spare $10.6 million in the bottom drawer, this sandstone belter might be for you. The house was built around the turn of the century by a fellow named P.H. Fergusson, in 1901, to be precise.

Fergusson actually named the house Enderslea, for his wife whose name was Mary nee Enders, and put it in her name, though it’s said he only did that so if he went bankrupt he wouldn't lose it: a common move for business men at the time.

The state heritage register says that this is a classic Federation Free style house, but the Hunters Hill Trust — a community heritage group — reckons it’s more of a transitional style between Victorian and Federation. 

While it’s a stone structure with a slate roof — Victorian — it also shows clear signs of Federation architecture in its asymmetrical design, roofed verandah and wooden handrails.

On a 1,400-square-metre block, and with gardens designed by Paul Bangay, the house has seven bedrooms, five bathrooms and two kitchens.